Looking really impressive. My knowledge of electrics doesn't stretch beyond +ve, - ve and a light bulb!
That battery monitor actually doesn't look half bad, it's a lot cheaper than the budget nasa marine one's that most people on a budget fit and they look really cheap and nasty IMHO. Personally I like Studer and Cristec gear but their prices are
It wouldn't really work that well because for accurate monitoring you need to see all the power in and out of the battery, that shunt is only rated at 100A so I wouldn't like to wire the starter through it but without doing that the capacity monitoring will always be off.As always superb stuff....wouldn't mind that monitor in my car to keep an eye on the discharge .
Will the battery charger get enough ventilation under there ? it looks a like too cosy for my liking.
Trouble is hot air rises..... ideally you want some way for the heat to circulate, I've seen battery chargers & inverters shut themselves down due to over heating.I was pondering that with the water pump in there as well but should do as all along the rear floor edge is a good 40mm gap to the bilge.
Trouble is hot air rises..... ideally you want some way for the heat to circulate, I've seen battery chargers & inverters shut themselves down due to over heating.
hi W.olly Tony Here.
that should be good that the charger has a fan, but maybe if you wanted to is have 2 small stainless vents on the side panel up near the top so any heat can come out then you'd be all good then, vents similar to the others you have installed as then it wont look out of place.
Tony.
I'll go out on a limb and say that if the unit has its own forced cooling it will be just fine. The charger will spend 99.9% of its time in trickle mode producing little or no heat. You could ask on what occasion would the charger need to charge the battery bank from completely flat?
Sadly that's not always the case, I've known the fan just recycle the same air so the unit gets hotter and hotter until it either thermal shutdowns itself or it cooks itself to death, I've seen both happen.I'll go out on a limb and say that if the unit has its own forced cooling it will be just fine.
When you accidentally leave the something turned on and don't have the shore power connected, I was on such a boat today, they had left both the isolators on and the domestic bank was reading 0.8 volts (yes I have got the decimal point in the right place) and the engine battery was reading 2.07volts. Realistically both batteries are now kaput so it probably won't be worth trying to charge them back up but I just know they will have a go rather than buy new batteries. It's not like you rely on those batteries to keep you alive at sea.... oh wait yes you do !You could ask on what occasion would the charger need to charge the battery bank from completely flat?